Attention is the vital thing and there is no tension in attention. It just happens to be a similar word. It's not concentration or straining. Attention has the openness of a young child not yet dominated by the conceptual mind.

Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new, between mind identification and presence.

Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is.

...there are two ways of being unhappy: One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want.

The moment you realize you are not present, you are present.

How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.